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Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 13-1415 NANCYE M. O’NEAL, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. WAL-MART STORES EAST, L.P., Defendant - Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Florence. R. Bryan Harwell, District Judge. (4:11-cv-01239-RBH) Submitted: July 15, 2013 Decided: August 9, 2013 Before GREGORY and FLOYD, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge. Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion. J. Scott
Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 13-1415 NANCYE M. O’NEAL, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. WAL-MART STORES EAST, L.P., Defendant - Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Florence. R. Bryan Harwell, District Judge. (4:11-cv-01239-RBH) Submitted: July 15, 2013 Decided: August 9, 2013 Before GREGORY and FLOYD, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge. Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion. J. Scott K..
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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 13-1415
NANCYE M. O’NEAL,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
v.
WAL-MART STORES EAST, L.P.,
Defendant - Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Florence. R. Bryan Harwell, District Judge.
(4:11-cv-01239-RBH)
Submitted: July 15, 2013 Decided: August 9, 2013
Before GREGORY and FLOYD, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior
Circuit Judge.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
J. Scott Kozacki, WILLCOX BUYCK & WILLIAMS, PA, Florence, South
Carolina, for Appellant. Angela B. Cummings, Jade C. Murray,
LITTLER MENDELSON, P.C., Charlotte, North Carolina, for
Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Nancye O’Neal (O’Neal) brought this sex and age
discrimination action against Wal-Mart Stores East, L.P. (Wal-
Mart), under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42
U.S.C. 2000e et seq., and the Age Discrimination in Employment
Act, 29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq., in the United States District
Court for the District of South Carolina. In her complaint,
O’Neal asserted a variety of sex and age discrimination claims.
At the close of discovery, Wal-Mart filed a motion for
summary judgment as to each of O’Neal’s remaining claims,
asserting that there was insufficient evidence in the record to
support her claims. Specifically, with regard to O’Neal’s
failure to promote claim, Wal-Mart asserted that she neither
produced direct evidence of sex or age discrimination nor
evidence that Wal-Mart’s stated reasons for its decision to hire
an external male candidate (under the age of forty) for the
position for which she applied were pretextual. Moreover, Wal-
Mart asserted that the undisputed record evidence showed that it
did not discriminate against O’Neal. With regard to O’Neal’s
constructive discharge claim, Wal-Mart asserted that O’Neal did
not produce evidence to show that Wal-Mart intended for her to
resign, that her working conditions met the elevated level of
being objectively intolerable, or that her sex or age affected
Wal-Mart’s treatment toward her.
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A United States Magistrate Judge filed a report and
recommendation in which she recommended dismissing each of
O’Neal’s claims. Finding the magistrate judge’s recommendation
sound, and agreeing that there were no genuine issues of
material fact precluding summary judgment, the district court
adopted the magistrate judge’s report and recommendation and
issued a decision granting summary judgment in favor of Wal-Mart
as to all of O’Neal’s claims. O’Neal noted this timely appeal.
Our careful review of the briefing, appellate record, and
relevant law compels us to conclude that the district court did
not err in granting summary judgment in favor of Wal-Mart.
Accordingly, we affirm on the reasoning of the district court,
as stated in its March 5, 2013 decision. O’Neal v. Wal-Mart
Stores East, L.P., Civil Action No. 4:11-cv-01239-RBH,
2013 WL
809244 (D.S.C. March 5, 2013).
We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal
contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the
court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED
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